Microsoft® .NET Kick Start

In Brief

• Various efforts are underway to have .NET Framework available on other platforms. Key to these initiatives include the Microsoft Shared Source CLI, also known as Rotor, which provides a shared source model for researchers, Ximian's Mono Project, and DotGNU's Portable .NET initiative. Even though initial deliverables of some of these initiatives are available, a considerable amount of time is left before production quality applications can be developed and deployed on other platforms.

• The next major release of SQL Server, code named Yukon, provides integrated support of CLR within the database. Developers will be able to write stored procedures using .NET programming languages and the ADO.NET database connectivity programming model. Other ...